Screened last night at the TCM Classic Film Festival, currently taking place at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, was a new restoration of the George Cukor-directed, Judy Garland-James Mason version of A Star Is Born (1954), among other features. Present at the A Star Is Born screening was Lorna Luft, Garland's daughter with Sid Luft.

In about half an hour, the TCM festival will show Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1959), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo (who is expected to attend the screening) and Jean Seberg.

Later this evening, the festival will offer an eclectic mix: John Schlesinger's Academy Award-winning Midnight Cowboy (1969), with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' Top Hat (1935), directed by Mark Sandrich; Steve Sekely's The Day of the Triffids (1962), starring a post-MGM Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, and Janette Scott; and what sounds like a must-see: (the now very much forgotten) St. John Legh Clowes' British crime dramaNo Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), mentioned on the TCM site for its “its brutality and overt sexuality,” and featuring Jack La Rue and Linden Travers.

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